Neuroscience of Attachment Series:
RECAP

• Recap on adult attachment classification

• AT tenets: stability of attachment (throughout life)

• Conceptualising attachment through ideas of a return to homeostasis

• NAMA model

• Elements of neurophysiology and epigenetics of avoidant attachment

• 10-step toolbox for working with avoidant attachment

• AT tenets: nature vs. nurture in attachment

• Ideas behind the Social Baseline Theory

• NAMA for anxious attachment

• Bio-behavioral synchrony

• 12-step toolbox for working with anxious attachment

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• Hallmarks of the less known fearful-avoidant attachment style. 

• The idea of attachment seen as a measure across Anxiety-Avoidance dimensions.

• Mental health and attachment

• The mentalisation module  from the NAMA model

• Reflective functioning, relationship to attachment, neuroanatomy and therapy

• Difference between genetics and epigenetics

• Genetics of attachment

• Epigenetics of attachment

• Tools for assessment of attachment

• Difference between cognitive and affective empathy and the link with the reflective function​

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